Mom's Daily Tests & Meds: 2004 - 2006

Daily postings of Mom's in-home tests, administered medications, food eaten and the relationship among the three and her life.

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Today's Stats:

Breakfast
Blood Glucose:
    Time:  1054
    Reading:  121
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  1101
    BP:  137/73
    Pulse:  59

Breakfast:  1045  & Meds
What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered
1 4 oz slice sugar cured ham steak
1" slice of the orange-cranberry-walnut ring she bought yesterday with 1 tbl Fleischmann's margarine
1/4 tsp cinnamon on bread
6 oz orange juice diluted w/8 oz water
Med/Dose Administration Explanation
Niferex-150 [150 mg elemental iron] 1 hour before breakfast to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg 1/2 1000 mg tab with Niferex-150 helps the body metabolize iron
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz just before meal helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin
Protonix/40 mg 1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal standard pre-breakfast med
glipizide ER/10 mg 1 pill with meal standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
aspirin/81 mg 1 tab with breakfast standard breakfast med - given for anti-coagulant properties
lisinopril/1.25 mg 1/4 of 5 mg tab with meal given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
Daily Senior Multivitamin with breakfast standard breakfast supplement
folic acid/400 mcg with breakfast standard breakfast supplement
garlic/1250 mg with meal standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
vitamin E/400 IU with meal given for anti-coagulant properties; among other reasons; appears to be of benefit to type 2 diabetics, as well, in its role as a smooth muscled organ protectant, particularly the pancreas, which produces insulin

    Nothing out of the ordinary except that she awoke on her own; I let her since it has been a rain day and she is not a rain person.

Lunch
Blood Glucose:
    Time:  1616
    Reading:  135
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  1630
    BP:  111/58
    Pulse:  63

Lunch:  1300-1700  & Meds
What she ate:  2 pieces of whole grain bread smeared with butter
about half a pear from our tree
1/6th a slice of leftover tomato pie
Med/Dose Administration Explanation
18 mg Iron Protein Succinylate 1 18 mg tab with meal to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg 1/2 1000 mg tab with iron supplement helps the body metabolize iron

    Lunch was drawn out between naps for Mom, today, which is why I took stats so late, and made sure she had plenty of warm comfort food ready for her.

Dinner
Blood Glucose:
    Time:  None
    Reading:  taken
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  2016
    BP:  125/63
    Pulse:  71

Dinner:  2030  & Meds
What she ate:  Approx 8 oz Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie Soup
1 12 oz cup instant chocolate mint cocoa
Med/Dose Administration Explanation
36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate 2 18 mg tabs with meal to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg 1/2 1000 mg tab with iron supplement helps the body metabolize iron
glipizide ER/10 mg 1 pill with meal standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
vitamin E/400 IU with meal given for anti-coagulant properties
garlic/1250 mg with meal given for anti-coagulant properties
calcium-vitamin D/500-200 mg with meal believed to be an osteoporosis preventative

    I didn't take her blood glucose because she's been eating off and on all day and it didn't seem necessary, since I knew I wouldn't be giving her insulin but would be giving her glipizide. She wasn't terribly hungry at what turned out to be dinner time, but when she started prowling through the kitchen, once again, I suggested soup and she decided that was a good idea.

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